Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Voltaire's stories, substantiate others, and attempt to account for the phenomenon of interpretation for the paradoxical case of fictions that proffer truths. Micromegas, Zadig, Candide, and L'Ingene constantly guide the interpreter to a single reading; nonetheless, these tales deconstruct their premises at the hands of readers who are conscious of their own status as text.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Carol Sherman
EAN: 9780807892275
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 435 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: The University of North Carolina Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1985-01-01
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PHILOSOPHY / General
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
